A global backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration curbs gathered strength on Sunday as several countries including long-standing American allies criticized the measures as discriminatory and divisive. Governments from London and Berlin to Jakarta and Tehran spoke out...

Syria's foreign minister Monday called on the country's refugees to return home, official media reported, without directly commenting on a U.S. ban targeting them. Walid Muallem "renewed the invitation of the government to Syrian refugees living in neighboring countries to return to their...

Germany Monday criticized the "catastrophic" human rights situation for migrants held captive by traffickers in Libya, ahead of an EU summit set to discuss migrant flows through North Africa. Media reports Sunday said that Germany's foreign ministry had warned of "concentration camp-like"...

Six people were killed and eight wounded when gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque during Sunday night prayers, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a "terrorist attack on Muslims". Police said two suspects had been arrested, but gave no details about them or what...

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to stop resettlement of Syrian refugees will cost lives, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday. "The president’s executive order will effectively keep people trapped in war zones, directly endangering their lives," MSF, also...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 84 officers and soldiers from Bashar la-Assad's heartland town have been killed in January, pro regime activists said. Qardaha town in the coastal Latakia province has mourned 84 army troops, including 18 officers, killed on different battlefield, especially in the...

(The Independent)- Individual stories of those locked out of the US by Donald Trump's Muslim ban are flooding in, with this year's Academy Awards ceremony certainly not excluded from its effects.  It has already been confirmed that both Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesman is...

(Daily Mail)- Islamic State's chief executioner, who has beheaded more than 100 people, has been stabbed to death in an ambush in Iraq. Nicknamed Abu Sayyaf, he was dubbed one of the terror groups scariest decapitators and was paraded in their sick videos for his huge frame. He was also...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The operation team in Syria Mine Action Centre (SMAC) announced that the town of Akhtarin subordinate to Azaz city in Aleppo’s northern countryside is safe and cleared of mines. The teams removed around 400 mines planted by the Islamic State before they left the town. Many...

The phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday was a display of mutual respect between the two men, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday. In the call, their first conversation since Trump's inauguration, Putin and Trump agreed...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Newly born Syrian children in Lebanese camps suffer a humanitarian crisis represented in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees not acknowledging these infants as refugees thus depriving them of health care or aid relief. The suffering of these children’s parents...

Jordan's King Abdullah will hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration in Washington Monday on how to bolster the kingdom's domestic security amid the growing risk of ISIS militant attacks, officials and diplomats said. They said the monarch, who will be the first Arab...

Clashes erupted between police and protesters in Bahrain before a hearing in the trial of a leading Shiite cleric accused of illegal collection of funds and money laundering, witnesses said Monday. Security forces in the Sunni-ruled Gulf island state fired tear gas and buckshot at hundreds...

The killing of a top Muslim lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi who was gunned down outside Yangon airport was a political assassination and a "terrorist act", Myanmar's ruling party said Monday. Ko Ni, a legal adviser to the National League for Democracy, was shot in the head Sunday...

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two men believed to be al-Qaeda militants in central Yemen, local officials said early Monday, hours after American commandos carried out the first military operation authorized by President Donald Trump. The officials said the pilotless plane targeted a...

(Daily Mail)-The Kremlin may have covered up the murder of a former KGB chief accused of helping ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele to pull together the notorious dossier on Donald Trump. Oleg Erovinkin served as a general in the KGB and was found dead on Boxing Day in the back of his car in...

Toyota has relinquished the title of the world's biggest automaker, reporting Monday that it sold 10.175 million vehicles worldwide in 2016, fewer than Volkswagen's 10.31 million. General Motors reports its tally next week. If GM's number falls short, it will be the first time the German...

Malaysia expanded a search on Monday for five Chinese tourists and a Malaysian missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Borneo, killing three Chinese passengers and tossing others into stormy seas. The catamaran carrying 28 Chinese tourists and three crew sank late on Saturday as it...

(Al-Monitor)- For months, Egypt has been experiencing medication shortages. Popular types of imported contraceptive pills were among the first to disappear from pharmacies and move to the black market, causing concerns in a country already experiencing overpopulation, rising fertility rates and...

Real Madrid extended their La Liga lead to four points and still have a game in hand over their title rivals as Cristiano Ronaldo was on target in a 3-0 win over Real Sociedad at the Santiago Bernabeu. Earlier Sunday, Barcelona were left to rue La Liga’s lack of goal line technology as they...